SWActionNews.com: With the Unleashed Battle Packs coming to their end, and the Titaniums finishing at the end of this year, and Muggs being reduced to only Toys R Us exclusives, what can you tell us about the viability of the Star Wars Transformers line?

Hasbro: Star Wars Transformers Crossovers is a strong line and will continue on through 2010. Unleashed 2" actually shot up in popularity with the success of Clone Wars (after we had already made the decision to rest it). It's a likely candidate for return some day.

I reluctantly picked up the AT-TE, V-Wing & Torrent from TRU today because I had a $10 off a $50 coupon that was burning a hole in my pocket. I have the baby AT-TE kickin it underneath the "real" version and just wow - cute. Hasbro did a bang up job on it compared to big daddy. I can understand the missing spinny disc thing, but I wish Hasbro would have at least kept the mini figs to fit in the cockpits.

I rarely transform these things into their mostly horrible bot modes so I really see these things as Action Fleet vehicles so it's all good in the hood since you can't see most of the bot parts in vehicle mode.

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I picked up the new CW Kit Fisto/Jedi Starfighter Transformer at WM this afternoon. It looks like the same CW JSF w/Ring mold except for the repainting and Kit Fisto's head sculpt.

I also noticed that the V-19 Torrent TF has white as the primary body paint now compared to the one I bought which has a darker tan. The original 2 white stripes on the engine cylinders aren't pronounced anymore in the new version. This must be a slight running paint change.

Do you know if this a repackage of the one released last November or did they do something different to it?

I think I missed a wave or two back then, but I don't remember seeing Salacious caked on the ship dropping bombs. It had the longer doors too - like the new "deluxe" class vehicle has which I don't recall on previous releases of this vehicle in this line. I don't recall seeing the turrets on this one either. Were they on the previous ones? I don't remember.

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Thanks Mikey, it sounds like a repack. Here are a couple of pics of what I found last year. I still haven't found the Battle Droid Transformer, but I'm in no hurry to find it. I'm pretty sure it'll show up in lots of quantity like with the others.

The newest Republic Gunship release has some slight modifications and repainting. The nose art shows a Salacious Crumb like character dropping a bomb, the windows in the canopy are painted, the wing turrets are painted solid, full solid doors are included, but the side ball turrets are not.

Saw the new tan repainted AAT/Battle Droid Commander, CW Y-Wing/Y-Wing Pilot, Twilight/Anakin, and the repainted Imperial colors V-Wing/Clone Pilot SW Transformers at SDCC yesterday. The Twilight looks very interesting because in Anakin robot mode, R2 turns up as a separate figure. These all have a release date of 10/30.

I just opened the Magnaguard, and while the canopy opens, there's no cockpit area to fit a mini-figure. The Magnaguard's head resides in the cockpit area. I still haven't bought the AAT yet, so I'm not sure about that one or the other 2 new molds shown off at SDCC.